I always figured "So Close" by Hall & Oates was a higher charting song but it's not in that hot 100 list.
― billstevejim, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
oh what fresh hell is this
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
are we at the point when we can just post songs that haven't been mentioned yet, even if they're not the best song of 1990?
― billstevejim, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
I have the "Suicide Blonde" cassingle.
it hit #11 (their last top 40 hit) and my local radio station played it a lot into 1991.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
(the version I prefer beefed up up by Jon Bon Jovi, of course)
Happy Mondays "Step On"Mother Love Bone "Chloe Dancer/Crown Of Thorns"Guns N Roses "Civil War" (i forget why this is technically 1990)LL Cool J "Around The way Girl" (this was on the radio a lot more in '91 but album version is '90)Red Hot Chili Peppers "Show Me Your Soul" (pretty woman soundtrack)Don Henley "The Heart Of The Matter" (guilty pleasure)Technotronic "Get Up (Before The Night Is Over)"
― billstevejim, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
the don henley song has a mike campbell co-write credit like "the boys of summer" so no big deal
― billstevejim, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
not a bad song but I prefer "The Last Worthless Evening"
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
man "Step On" and "Loose Fit" briefly changed my life, loved those songs so much
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
did Tyler Collins' "Girls Night Out" change your life too?
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiF6l-LCLm8
― billstevejim, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
I had never heard "Girls Night Out" before this very moment
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
did it change your life?
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
well, I'm now listening to the entirety of College Dropout for the first time in years so... maybe?
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
Nirvana / Sliver/Dive - SP073. Released: September 1, 1990
― Nate Carson, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
"Holy Wars" and "Seasons In The Abyss" are pretty outstanding.
― billstevejim, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
Pixies "Velouria"Teenage fanclub "Everything Flows"Dino Jr "The Wagon"
― billstevejim, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
also "Blowin It"/"I Live For That Look"
But I might personally have to go with "Dust Cake Boy" from Babes in Toyland Spanking Machine.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
Blur "She's So High" !!
― billstevejim, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
Whitney Houston "I'm Your Baby Tonight"
― billstevejim, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
Londonbeat "I've Been Thinking About You" would be my favorite guilty pleasure from this year (didn't chart in US until 1991 though)
― billstevejim, Friday, 3 August 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
Officially released in fall of 1990 although didn't hit it big til next year... "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains. The rest of the album isn't great but "Dirt" and "Jar of Flies" are.
― LimbsKing, Friday, 3 August 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah sometimes I put "Man In A Box" after "Girl In A Box" on 1990 related mix things
― billstevejim, Friday, 3 August 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
too bad "Living in a Box" wasn't 1990
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 3 August 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
'Roam' by The B-52s. Still sounds very fresh to my ears now.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 3 August 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
...and "Deadbeat Club"
― LimbsKing, Friday, 3 August 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
Probably "Little Fluffy Clouds" or "Humpty Dance".
― o. nate, Friday, 3 August 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
Welcome To The Terrordome
the single came out summer '89
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Saturday, 4 August 2012 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man 'I've been thinking about you' is so rad!
― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Saturday, 4 August 2012 02:20 (eleven years ago) link
xp Really? Weird, I remember it coming out in early '90. Richard Roeper (of Ebert & Roeper "fame") wrote a column in the Chicago Sun-Times where he excoriated PE for (I shit you not) their "bad grammar" on that song.
― Sun? Sun? It's your cousin, Marvin Ra (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 4 August 2012 02:59 (eleven years ago) link
you're right--i was thinking about "fight the Power"
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Saturday, 4 August 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
The top tens of 1990, ranked.
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 00:49 (five years ago) link
For once, I agree almost completely. On the money.
Then I saw that BBD Poison is listed as meh, and realized that this is a list from some alternate universe that is almost exactly like ours except for 1 detail.
― enochroot, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 01:00 (five years ago) link
Leaden sexism. Didn't even need it then, not when his New Edition bros released comparable hits and BBD wrote and produced Another Bad Creation and the first Boyz II Men album.
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 01:13 (five years ago) link
watching the video for Nothing Compares to U again I am embarrassed but also really moved
― Dan S, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 01:16 (five years ago) link
Groove Is in the Heart and Vogue also still seem really great in retrospect
― Dan S, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 01:17 (five years ago) link
"in retrospect"
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 01:21 (five years ago) link
lol, I also liked them at the time! :)
just thinking about it as history
― Dan S, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 01:27 (five years ago) link
can you take meHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH ENUFFFF
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 01:28 (five years ago) link
so “Kool Thing”, “Welcome to the Terrordome”, and “911 Is a Joke” were not part of the Billboard top singles that year
― Dan S, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 01:53 (five years ago) link
settle for "Knockin' Boots"
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 02:04 (five years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
"Kool Thing" is one of my favorite songs of all time, don't care about billboard, would have to vote for it as best song of 1990
― Dan S, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 02:26 (five years ago) link
not only was I unsurprisingly annoying in this thread but I never once mentioned "Mama Said Knock You Out."
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 03:56 (five years ago) link